Patents by Inventor Tadashi Sawada

Tadashi Sawada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240123332
    Abstract: A shooting game control method, which is executed by a computer incorporated in a device including a display and a touch panel, includes accepting a touch operation on the touch panel; displaying a first frame indicative of a shooting effective range on the display in accordance with a position of the touch operation; accepting an instruction for an attack on an attack target in a state in which the first frame is displayed; determining whether the attack target in a game image displayed on the display is within the first frame or not, at a time point when the instruction for the attack has been accepted; and controlling the attack on the attack target in the game image in accordance with a result of the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi TSUCHIYA, Norihiro SAWADA, Tadashi NAGANO, Takeshi ARAKAWA
  • Patent number: 10141789
    Abstract: An equivalent circuit of a converter (4) is represented by a series connection between an equivalent capacitor (41) and an equivalent resistor (42), and the converter (4) includes a controller that adjusts a power factor of the input power by controlling a capacitive reactance (Xc) of the equivalent capacitor (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, TOYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kashiwagi, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada, Takayoshi Tanaka, Takehisa Kashima
  • Publication number: 20180109143
    Abstract: An equivalent circuit of a converter (4) is represented by a series connection between an equivalent capacitor (41) and an equivalent resistor (42), and the converter (4) includes a controller that adjusts a power factor of the input power by controlling a capacitive reactance (Xc) of the equivalent capacitor (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, TOYO ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki KASHIWAGI, Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA, Takayoshi TANAKA, Takehisa KASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9632564
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Michio Tamate, Koji Maruyama, Tomotaka Nishijima
  • Patent number: 9590428
    Abstract: An electric power receiving device in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises an electric power receiving section and a converting section. The converting section comprises a compensation voltage generating section. The compensation voltage generating section generates a compensation voltage capable of canceling out a reactance component in the electric power receiving section, and applies the compensation voltage to the electric power receiving section. The compensation voltage generating section comprises a phase changing section, a physical quantity detecting section, and a searching section. The searching section searches a target phase of the compensation voltage that brings the electric power receiving device into a substantially resonant state, based on a physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Yuki Kashiwagi, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Tadashi Sawada
  • Patent number: 9548674
    Abstract: An electric power receiving device according to the invention receives an electric power from a primary coil, with which a first alternating voltage is applied and through which a first alternate current flows. The device includes an electric power receiving section and a reducing-voltage generating section. The receiving section includes a secondary coil electromagnetically coupled to the primary coil and a capacitor connected to the secondary coil, and generates a second alternating voltage based upon the first alternating current. The generating section generates a reducing-voltage and applies the reducing-voltage to the receiving section, the reducing-voltage being capable of reducing a reactance voltage generated in the receiving section by a second alternating current generated in the receiving section due to the second alternating voltage, and the reducing-voltage being approximately equal to the second alternating voltage in frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Toshiaki Murai, Daisuke Shimode, Tadashi Sawada
  • Patent number: 9412511
    Abstract: A transformer includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, and a core. The core is to be used in combination with the primary coil or the secondary coil, and includes a conductor storage part and a central part. The conductor storage part is a concave recess formed in an annular manner and configured to store a conductor of the coil therein. The central part is a region inward from the conductor when the core is used in combination with the coil. The central part has a recessed shape having an opening that opens toward a direction opposite to a direction of an opening of the concave recess. The central part has an end, at a side opposite to a side of the opening of the central part, which is generally flat so as to be contiguous with an inner opening edge of the conductor storage part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Daisuke Shimode, Toshiaki Murai, Tadashi Sawada
  • Patent number: 9231494
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignees: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawada, Toshiaki Murai, Yoshiyasu Hagiwara, Masayuki Tobikawa, Ayako Saga, Tomotaka Nishijima, Toshiya Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20150249345
    Abstract: An electric power receiving device in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises an electric power receiving section and a converting section. The converting section comprises a compensation voltage generating section. The compensation voltage generating section generates a compensation voltage capable of canceling out a reactance component in the electric power receiving section, and applies the compensation voltage to the electric power receiving section. The compensation voltage generating section comprises a phase changing section, a physical quantity detecting section, and a searching section. The searching section searches a target phase of the compensation voltage that brings the electric power receiving device into a substantially resonant state, based on a physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Yuki KASHIWAGI, Toshiaki MURAl, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20150023079
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit including a plurality of switching arms which is an inverse-parallel circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. The power supply device includes a control unit. The control unit switches the semiconductor switch such that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between the DC terminals only during prescribed time periods before and after a point that has deviated from each zero crossing point ZCP of a current i by a prescribed compensation period ? and such that the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage during the other time periods, and sets the compensation period ? such that a time period during which the voltage v between the AC terminals becomes a zero voltage is the shortest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi SAWADA, Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA, Toshiya KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20140372780
    Abstract: In a power supply device, the bridge circuit is configured by connecting, in parallel, a plurality of series circuits of an inverse-parallel connection circuit of a semiconductor switch and a diode. A control unit controls switching of a semiconductor switch so that a voltage v between AC terminals becomes zero voltage in equal periods ? before and after a center point shifted from one zero crossing point in one cycle of the input current by a compensation period (angle) ? calculated from a voltage applied to a resonance circuit constituted by the power receiving coil and a resonance capacitor Cr and an induced voltage of the power receiving coil, and becomes a positive-negative voltage whose peak value is the voltage Vo between DC terminals in other periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicants: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki MURAI, Yoshiyasu HAGIWARA, Tadashi SAWADA, Masayuki TOBIKAWA, Ayako SAGA, Michio TAMATE, Koji MARUYAMA, Tomotaka NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20120326515
    Abstract: An electric power receiving device according to the invention receives an electric power from a primary coil, with which a first alternating voltage is applied and through which a first alternate current flows. The device includes an electric power receiving section and a reducing-voltage generating section. The receiving section includes a secondary coil electromagnetically coupled to the primary coil and a capacitor connected to the secondary coil, and generates a second alternating voltage based upon the first alternating current. The generating section generates a reducing-voltage and applies the reducing-voltage to the receiving section, the reducing-voltage being capable of reducing a reactance voltage generated in the receiving section by a second alternating current generated in the receiving section due to the second alternating voltage, and the reducing-voltage being approximately equal to the second alternating voltage in frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Toshiaki Murai, Daisuke Shimode, Tadashi Sawada
  • Publication number: 20120154098
    Abstract: A transformer includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, and a core. The core is to be used in combination with the primary coil or the secondary coil, and includes a conductor storage part and a central part. The conductor storage part is a concave recess formed in an annular manner and configured to store a conductor of the coil therein. The central part is a region inward from the conductor when the core is used in combination with the coil. The central part has a recessed shape having an opening that opens toward a direction opposite to a direction of an opening of the concave recess. The central part has an end, at a side opposite to a side of the opening of the central part, which is generally flat so as to be contiguous with an inner opening edge of the conductor storage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Daisuke SHIMODE, Toshiaki MURAI, Tadashi SAWADA
  • Patent number: 4881987
    Abstract: Direct softening heat treatment of rolled wire rods comprises the steps of:providing wire rods by hot- or warm-rolling, and immediately following rolling, coiling the rolled wire rods in an annealing furnace. Apparatus therefor comprises an annealing furnace provided with an externally or internally built coiler for rolled wire rods disposed adjacent to a rolling line of said wire rods, the coiler being disposed so as to directly receive the rolled wire rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kanbara, Kenji Aihara, Masato Tomiku, Yoshio Kawashima, Tadashi Sawada, Shinji Okuda, Mitsuaki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4834345
    Abstract: Direct softening heat treatment of rolled wire rods comprises the steps:providing wire rods by hot- or warm-rolling, andimmediately following rolling, coiling the rolled wire rods in an annealing furnace. Apparatus therefor comprises an annealing furnace provided with an externally or internally built coiler for rolled wire rods disposed adjacent to a rolling line of said wire rods, the coiler being disposed so as to directly receive the rolled wire rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kanbara, Kenji Aihara, Masato Tomiku, Yoshio Kawashima, Tadashi Sawada, Shinji Okuda, Mitsuaki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4708586
    Abstract: A hollow cylindrical stator and a cylindrical rotor are disposed in the stator with a gap therebetween, the inner peripheral surface of the stator or the outer peripheral surface of the rotor being provided with a helical groove, or thread groove, and evacuation being performed by rotation of the rotor. The width of the helical groove adjacent the suction side of the pump is larger than the width of a ridge between adjacent turns of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignees: Rikagaku Kenkyusho, Osaka Vacuum, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sawada, Tatsuji Ikegami, Masashi Iguchi
  • Patent number: 4500251
    Abstract: There is disclosed a multijoint in which the primary moment force caused by a combined gravity of the lower arm which is supported by an elbow joint portion for pivotting the upper and lower arm together and a distal mechanism fitted to the distal end of the lower arm, is minimized by imparting a force opposite the primary moment force thereby reducing the load of an electric motor for driving the elbow joint portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Kiryu, Tadashi Sawada